With the announced reduction in bureaucracy, the Commission is sending an important signal to ease the burden on companies in the EU. The planned "omnibus simplification package", which aims to streamline reporting obligations in the areas of sustainability and taxonomy, is a first step towards reducing bureaucracy.

Deutsche Telekom continues to abuse its dominant market position by strategically overbuilding the fiber optic networks of its competitors, thereby massively hindering them. The industry associations BREKO and VATM have now called on the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to take action against this abusive behavior by a company with considerable market power.

On 14 January, we kicked off one of the central topics of our association's work in 2025 with a webinar lasting more than two hours: under the moderation of industry expert Dr. Ernst-Olav Ruhle, CEO of SBR-net AG, seven BREKO companies presented their fiber optic cooperation models. The response was huge: over 180 representatives of [...]

These topics and debates will shape European telecommunications policy in 2025 The new EU Commission will present its work program on 11 February. It is already possible to foresee a number of topics that will shape the debates, legislative and regulatory processes surrounding the telecommunications market. 1. frequency allocation and internal market: Harmonization of mobile [...]

In December, the Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste (WIK) published the study "Leitbild für nachhaltig funktionsfähige Wettbewerb in der Glasfaserwelt", which is available here. The study examines how sustainable, functioning competition in the market can look and function in a future "fiber optic world" in which fiber optic connections are available throughout Germany. BREKO [...]

The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs (BMDV) launched this year's call for gigabit funding on January 23. The funding calls comprise a budget of 1.2 billion euros, which will be made available for the infrastructure funding call and the gap closure program (40 million euros). Further information on gigabit funding 2.0 and the [...]

Mentions of BREKO in the media in the period from December 18, 2025 to January 24, 2025 in chronological order: 155 million euros for fiber optic expansion in Saxony-Anhalt The fiber optic expansion in Saxony-Anhalt is progressing. The state and federal government are investing 155 million euros. The amount of funding is therefore 15 million [...]

Expansion reports from BREKO member companies from the period December 18, 2024 - January 24, 2025, in chronological order, without any claim to completeness: Avacon Connect successfully completes fiber optic expansion in Gehrden "The wait was more than worth it. With the end of construction of the fiber optic network, we are not only celebrating [...]

Important notifications from BREKO member companies in chronological order Period: December 18, 2024 - January 24, 2025 Supervisory Board of Stadtwerke Ratingen confirms Stefan Hermes as Managing Director of KomMITT-Ratingen GmbH for a further five years Contract with Stefan Hermes as Managing Director of KomMITT extended early for a further five years until December 31, [...]

The early federal elections will take place on February 23. BREKO has taken a closer look at the parties' election manifestos and provides an overview of what the parties have written on digital infrastructure: CDU/CSU: The CDU/CSU wants to use various measures to "get out of the coverage gap" and expand broadband and mobile communications [...]